West End Off-Broadway United States International Entertainment Log In Re San Francisco Sections Shows Chat Boards Jobs Students Video Industry Insider LUCIA BERLIN: STORIES WORD FOR Hot Stories BroadwayWorld TV WORD Opens 2/17 at Z Below by BWW News Desk Jan. 29, 2018 Tweet Share Deadline Announced for for 2018 ICWP 50/50 Applause Word for Word's rst production of their 25th Anniversary Season is Lucia Berlin:Stories Awards for Theatre Gender Parity Nominations running February 14-March 11, in the Z Below Theater in San Francisco. Lucia First Listen: Caissie Levy Sings Elsa Berlin:Stories opens with press performances February 17 & 18, Saturday 8 PM and "Dangerous To Dream' from F Sunday 3 PM (previews Feb. 14 - 16). The stories are from Lucia Berlin's posthumously published, critically acclaimed, A Manual for Cleaning Women featuring the stories "Her Ad First Detox", "Emergency Room Notebook 1977", "Unmanageable", "502" and "Here It Is Saturday". Linda & Laura Benanti Head to Feinstein's at the Nikko Directed by Nancy Shelby and JoAnne Winter, Lucia Berlin:Stories is set to an evocative jazz score by Marcus Shelby, and illuminated with vibrant projections by Naomie Kremer. Author Lydia Davis in The New Yorker described Berlin's work: "Lucia Berlin's stories are electric, they buzz and crackle as the live wires touch....This is exhilarating writing" On Sunday, February 25,following the 3PM performance: Lucia's Sons, a post- Cast Announced For The Little Art Shop - Unique Art an Stephen Sondheim's show talk with Jeff Berlin and David Berlin in conversation with the audience and SATURDAY NIGHT At 42nd remarking about the performances, stories, and their life with their mother Lucia Berlin. Street Moon Little Art Shop Wry, electric commentary on the dark corners, the everyday, and the oft-overlooked, these 5 Bay Area stories from Berlin's posthumous A Manual for Cleaning Women SAN FRANCISCO SHOWS illuminate her insightful, compassionate view of American society. The production is On Your Feet directed by Nancy Shelby and JoAnne Winter, music composed by Marcus Shelby with San Francisco Gay Men's Golden Gate Theatre (9/11 ­ 10/7 set/sculptural design by Oliver DiCicco and Video art design by Naomie Kremer. These Chorus Names Jonathan Foulk As New Chief Contra Costa Musical Theatre P redemptive stories feature Bay Area actress and Word for Word charter members Jeri Advancement Ofcer Side Story Lynn Cohen*, and Delia MacDougall*, with actors Cassidy Brown*, Ryan Williams French*, Hofmann Theatre, Lesher Center for the A Norman Gee*, Gendell Hing-Hernandez*, Indiia Wilmot, and Phil Wong. *Actors Equity 4/29) Lucia Brown Berlin (1936 - 2004) was an American short story writer. She had a small, The Book of Mormon Saroyan Theatre (10/3 ­ 10/7) devoted following, but did not reach a mass audience during her lifetime. She rose to THE BROADWAY PRINCESS sudden literary fame eleven years after her death, in August 2015, with Farrar, Straus and PARTY is Headed to the West TheatreWorks Silicon Valley Pr Coast Giroux's publication of a volume of selected stories, A Manual For Cleaning Women, Bridges of Madison County" edited by Stephen Emerson. It was enthusiastically recognised coast to coast in the US Mountain View Center for the Performing and abroad. The book hit The New York Times Bestseller List in its second week, and 4/29) within a few weeks, had outsold all her previous books combined. Berlin's book was Joseph and the Amazing Techn described at publication as "possessing wit of Lorrie Moore, the grit of Raymond Carver, Dreamcoat and a blend of humor and melancholy all her own, Berlin crafts miracles from the Woodminster Amphitheater (8/3 ­ 8/12) everyday, uncovering moments of grace in the cafeterias and Laundromats of the American Southwest, in the homes of the Bay Area upper class, among switchboard VIEW ALL ADD A SHOW AUD operators and struggling mothers, hitchhikers and bad Christians." - Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Ticket Central Browse Berlin was born in Juneau, Alaska, and spent her childhood on the move, following her A BRONX T father's career as a mining engineer. The family lived in mining camps in Idaho, ANASTASIA Montana and Arizona, and Chile, where Lucia spent most of her youth. As an adult, she AMY AND lived in New Mexico, Mexico, northern and southern California and Colorado. She ROCKTOPI became published relatively late in life. Her rst small collection, Angels in the PUFFS Laundromat, was published in 1981, but her published stories were written as early as 1960. Several of her stories appeared in magazines such as The Atlantic and Saul Watch Now on BWW TV Bellow's The Noble Savage. Berlin published six collections of short stories, but most of her work can be found in three later volumes from Black Sparrow Books: Homesick: New and Selected Stories (1990), So Long: Stories 1987-92 (1993) and Where I Live Now: Stories 1993-98 (1999). Keala Settle Performs Lin-Manu 'This is Me' On the and Emil Lucia Berlin:Stories Team - Actors, Directors, Composer and Designer. Oscars MARY PO RETURNS Directed by Nancy Shelby, JoAnne Winter Ad Actors: Word for Word Charter Members Jeri Lynn Cohen*, and Delia MacDougall*, with actors Cassidy Brown*, Ryan Williams French*, Norman Gee*, Gendell Hing-Hernandez*, Backstage with the First Liste New Star of DEAR Levy Sing Indiia Wilmot, and Phil Wong. *Actors Equity EVAN HANSEN, Taylor Song "Da Trensch! Dream' f Oliver DiCicco (Sculptural Set Design) Naomie Kremer, (Video Artist), Marcus Shelby (Composer) Cassidy Brown (actor) has appeared at TheatreWorks in Fallen Angels, Doubt, Distracted, The 39 Steps and The Loudest Man on Earth; at Aurora Theatre in Safe House and Bosoms and Neglect, and most recently at Berkeley Rep in Imaginary Comforts. Other Bay Area credits include Center Rep, San Jose Rep, Marin Shakespeare Company, and San Jose Stage. Regionally he has appeared at Capital Stage and in numerous shows at Pacic Repertory Theatre. Jeri Lynn Cohen (actor) is a Charter Member of Word for Word Performing Arts Company where she has originated roles in over 16 productions. She has performed at theaters throughout the Bay Area and has toured internationally with both Word for Word and the San Francisco Mime Troupe. Ryan Williams French (actor) is an actor, singer, and writer, who works as an educator. He recently completed a production of James Baldwin, Blues for Mister Charlie in Seattle with The Williams Project. Other credits include Mr. Burns, A Christmas Carol (American Conservatory Theater) Holy Ghostly (Campo Santo) The Guthrie, Chautauqua Theater Company, and Hudson Guild NYC. He received his MFA in Acting from A.C.T. and B.A. from Dartmouth College. Norman Gee (actor) just performed in Stories from Silence at PianoFight, a Utopia Theater #MeToo response. He also did Death of A Salesman with Ubuntu Theater last year, and played Polonious and The Gravedigger in Arabian Shakespeare Festival's Hamlet Gendell Hing-Hernandez (actor) has performed with Word for Word in Sorry Fugu, and has been a lead teaching artist for the company here and in France. Subscribe Now Register for discounts, specia Delia MacDougall (actor) is an actor, director, and is a Charter Member of Word for Word. She last performed with Word for Word in Smut. Other Word for Word shows: Sorry Fugu, The Necklace, Rose-Johnny, The Islanders, Friend of My Youth, 36 Stories by Sam Enter Your Email Address Shepard, and In Friendship which she also directed. Other direction credits for WfW include Immortal Heart, Winesburg, Ohio, Oil!: The Ride, and Mrs. Dalloway's Party. Subscribe Indiia Wilmot (actor) has performed in the Bay with Zenith, San Francisco Playhouse, All of What You Love and None of What You Hate, San Francisco Playhouse, Antony and Cleopatra, African-American Shakespeare Company, and Bootycandy at Brava Theater Center/Black Artists Contemporary Cultural Experience. She is also is a teaching artist working American Conservatory Theater and California Shakespeare Theater. Phil Wong (actor) is an actor, musician, comedian, and teaching artist from Oakland, last seen with Word for Word in SMUT: An Unseemly Story. He is a Resident Artist with SF Shakes, a graduate of Oberlin College, and received his physical theatre training at the Accademia dell' Arte in Arezzo, Italy. Nancy Shelby (Director) is a Charter Member of Word for Word, and has appeared in more than fteen Word for Word productions, most recently - SMUT: The Greening of Mrs.Donaldson. This fall Nancy directed Greg Sarris' How a Mountain was Made. Recommended for You JoAnne Winter (Director) co-founded Word for Word in 1993, and has helped produce over 100 shows, readings and student performances for the company. She is also Artistic Director of Word for Word's arts education program, Youth Arts, and is an actor, director and teaching artist. Marcus Shelby (Composer) is a bandleader, composer, arranger, bassist, educator, and activist who currently lives in San Francisco, California. Over the past 25 years he has built a diverse biography as a composer, focusing on sharing the history, present, and future of African American lives, on social movements in the US, and on early childhood music education. Currently, Shelby is an artist in residence with the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival and the Artistic Director of the Marcus Shelby Orchestra. He has received numerous awards, and collaborated with many artists in original composition. Torns to Lead WAIT For Word for Word, he composed 2008's award- winning score for Sonny's Blues (James Following Bareilles Baldwin) Sets Exit Date Oliver DiCicco (Set Design) is a multi-talented designer who is a sculptor, fabricator, Fundraising Begin scientist, engineer, and musician. DiCicco's large-scale kinetic sound sculptures and Leading to Annua avant-garde set designs have drawn rave reviews while being used as interactive Bonnet Competiti components in unique theatrical productions.